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A group of self-describednational socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personalinformation about people who haveshown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, labelling them as "potentially dangerous."

Cornwalliswas a governor of Nova Scotia. In 1749, he issued a so-called scalping proclamationoffering a cash bounty to anyone who killed a Mi'kmaqperson.

On Saturday,a large crowdprotestedaround the statue and demandedthe likenessof Halifax's controversialfounder be removed from adowntown park.

Demonstatorshad earlier threatened onFacebookto remove the statue but relented when municipal crews covered the monument in black cloth for the duration of the event.

An anonymous Twitter user affiliated with Cape Breton Alt Right published a list online last Thursday, releasing the names, photos and other identifying detailsof 28 people interested in the removal of the statue in a process known on the internetas "doxing."

The list, latershared and discussed on Facebook, also includedcategories like:

The final "notes" column identifiessome people as being "mentally ill andunstable," "extremely militant and dangerous,"having histories of being "drunk and disorderly"and being on police watch lists.

The list included a 'notes' column, labelling some people as violent or mentally ill. (Twitter)

Adam Lemoine ofNorth Sydneywas doxed as having affiliations with Antifa, a far-left, anti-fascist organization. Hesaidhewas "blown away" when he found out, as he hasnever evenbeen to a protest.

"The only information they had correct was my name and my hometown," said Lemoine, who caught wind of the list after it was posted on Facebook.

"They have me playing an instrument I didn't play, in a band that no longer exists."

Lemoine saidhe clicked "interested" on a Facebook event for a protest last Saturday at the Cornwallis statue to get updates on what happened.

He believes the Twitter user who posted the list saw that, put his name into a search engine and listed whatthey found.

Activists protest at the base of the Edward Cornwallis statue last weekend after Halifax staff covered it with a black sheet. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)

Lemoine said that when he asked the Cape Breton Alt Rightgroup to remove his name from the list, it responded by saying even if he could prove his details were wrong, the rest of the information would stay.

The group continues to maintain anonymity andrefused to be interviewed by the CBC over the phone or inperson on the grounds that it would be "inappropriate."

In anemailedstatement, however, the groupsaid ithasreceiveddeath threats almost daily since the list was posted.

The statement goes on to compare the actions of Cornwallis demonstrators to the destruction of historical sites in Palmyra by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,and indicates the list was compiled over the course of about two months "in the interest of public safety."

"The community at large has a right to know the identities of those around them who may pose a threat to their immediate safety and a threat to their property," saidthe two-page statement, signed onlyby "leadership."

Tanner Leudy, a student at Cape Breton University, sharedthe same event page for the Cornwallis protest on Facebook though he knew he couldn't attend.

Leudysaidhe hadnever even heard ofAntifabeforethe list linkedhim to the organizationand he's worried about how beingassociated with such a groupcould affect the futureofthose who've been doxed.

"I've never done anything to warrant [the inclusion]," said Leudy. "Being labelled as a dangerous protester, even if it's not true, isn't something that employers will want in their workplace."

Anthony Leudy says he shared a Facebook event and then was wrongfully labelled 'potentially dangerous' by an anonymous Twitter user. (Twitter)

The group maintainsall of theinformationwas gathered within the public domain, referencing social media and news interviews, but DavidFraser, an internet privacy lawyer in Halifax, saidit's thelanguage of the list's "notes" columnthat may push legal boundaries.

Information compiledfrom social media platforms is fair game when it comes to doxing, saidFraser.

However, he added that legal proceedings on doxing, as rare as they are,require that what hasbeen published is explored as much as whyit hasbeen published.

"To be defamatory, all something has to do is to harm your reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person,"saidFraser.

"It would seem to me that [the notes]at the end of the listwould be, on its face,defamatoryandthe onus would shift to the person who said themto justify them as being true."

FrasersaidtheHalifax Proud Boys provide a good example of doxing.

He saidtheywere "implicitlydoxed" by volunteering theirpersonal information when showing up at an Indigenous rallyon Canada DayinCornwallisPark.They were recordedand the videos eventually made it to their workplace, resulting in their reprimand.

But, Frasersaid, it's part of the "rough and tumble"of freely expressed politics.

CBC News reached out to the Cape Breton Regional Police, the Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP.They say no investigation is ongoing because no one has come forward with a complaint.

El Jones says the doxing proves the extremity of the racism surrounding the Edward Cornwallis statue issue. (Twitter)

El Jones, Halifax's former poet laureate and a well-known, outspoken activist,saidshe isnotsurprised sheended up on the list.

"You hope that this is just some form of extreme reaction that's perhaps just intended to intimidate people," said Jones.

"[But] you have totake seriously the intent behind it, which is an attempt to harm."

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Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 8:32 a.m.

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With street battles against antifa quickly becoming a thing of the past, the Alt-Right is trying to stay relevant by organizing boring speaking events like every other political group; only they've encountered a little trouble along the way. In late May, "The Summer of Conservatism" event slated to take place July 9 at eSports Arena in downtown SanTana got cancelled and Old World German Restaurant in Huntington Beach scrapped an August gathering in the works billed as a "Celebration of Western Culture." Both venues faced a chorus of criticism from activists before canning the events.

But the Alt-Right is returning in OC after the brief retreat. "The Summer of Conservatism" found a new venue at the Embassy Suites in Garden Grove, with the Irvine-based Make Cali Great nonprofit revealing the location just days before, citing an internal email from an eSports Arena worker saying their owners received personal threats from activists. (The Weekly asked eSports Arena multiple times to substantiate the claim, but they declined). The sparsely attended event, with rows of empty seats, featured speakers like conservative media personality Larry Elder, Kyle Chapman (aka Based Stickman), Maxine Waters congressional challenger Omar Navarro and Huntington Beach Assemblyman (and gubernatorial candidate next year) Travis Allen.

Speaking of Surf City, the "Celebration of Western Culture" event is back on at Old World, too, only under a different name. After a number of conflicting online postings, Old World threw a "non-management employee" under the bus for making unauthorized comments in a statement on their Facebook page and opened their doors to the Alt-Right once more. So much for anyone who thought Old World turned over a whole new leaf from its days of hosting Holocaust deniers and allowing a neo-Nazi club to celebrate Hitler's birthday with a party!

This time around, a slew of modern-day "No MA'AM" speakers are lined up for "Make Men Great Again" on August 5 at the HB establishment (and not Al Bundy's garage). Joe Biggs (who's made nice with InfoWars again), Libertarian pagan Augustus Sol Invictus, Kyle Chapman, livestreamer Irma Hinojosa and former Villa Park councilwoman/current Bircher/forever Islamophobe Deborah Pauly are all scheduled to make appearances for the "celebration of masculinity." And then there's Lake Forest's Juan Cadavid, better known in Alt-Right circles as "Johnny Benitez," but who's gone under multiple aliases like Joey Cadavid, Sterling Abrade(s), and Dorian Navidson when involved with left-wing groups in the past. (The Weekly has since learned of two other Facebook pages still up under the names "Sterling Cadavid" and "Joey Benitez").

Juanny Cadavitez?

Illustration by Bob Aul

The curious Colombian-American is also set to speak at the event he helped organize. But for all the machismo he now boasts, Cadavid played the part of an ardent feminist trying to organize exploited women spa workers just this February. Under his "Sterling Abrade" alias, Cadavid sent an email to a local progressive activist back then wanting to raise awareness about the troubles of his industry with not-so-nice comments about Trump.

"The same principal with which Donald Trump used to cheat small businesses he knew could not afford to take him to court is used against the women of the spa industry," Cadavid wrote in the Feb. 2 email shared with the Weekly. "With an attempt to pass a national anti worker bill that would destroy California's worker protections and the election of a president who has no respect for women, it is especially important to stand up for women being oppressed in the spa industry."

Cadavid detailed wage theft and workplace grievancesincluding the practice of shifting around clients who sexually harass massage therapists rather than outright banning them. (Quick aside: Cadavid blamed the Weekly's expos for being fired because we mentioned his occupation, though he freely made the disclosure to the San Francisco Chronicle before making the claim on Facebook). A month after the email, Cadavid attended the Huntington Beach MAGA march in launching his Alt-Right Johnny Benitez persona. Accordingly, it's not bad bosses, but foreigners "overtaking" the spa industry that rubs Cadavid the wrong way nowadayseven though he's says online that he wasn't born in the U.S. himself.

Other all-too-sudden political flip-flops detailed by the Weekly created a cloud of suspicion in Alt-Right ranks that's followed Cadavid every step of the way since while trying to make a name for himself. He quit the Proud Boys, a self-described "Alt-Lite" fraternity, amid questions about his political leanings that reached all the way up to founder Gavin McInnes (one of the founders of VICE) himself. "Yeah, this Johnny Benitez thing is not working out," McInnes wrote on Facebook. "I don't know if you're a spy or if you're just a little too enthusiastic but you're not in charge, I am." Chapman later stepped in and tasked Cadavid with forming the Alt-Knights of Orange County.

Last time around, the Weeklyleft Cadavid's political motivations up for question. Whatever the case may be,text messages sent from "Sterling Abrade" in April to a left-wing activist after the Huntington Beach march professed one motive behind his pro-Trump persona. "I want to climb the social ranks and push a hard right conservative agenda and create a rift between libertarians and conservatives and split up the base," reads one text shared with the Weekly. "Also it's fun."

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Some Medieval Studies professors are worried that the alt-right is co-opting the discipline to promote a fantasy of the Middle Ages with undertones of white supremacy.

It should be a really, really important time for the field to reflect on why are these things going on and what can we do to combat that, Vassar College professor Dorothy Kim told The Chronicle of Higher Education. The worry I would have is that, is the field going to be forever linked to white supremacy?

"The worry I would have is that, is the field going to be forever linked to white supremacy?"

The article recounts the experience of Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, an author and scholar in the area of Medieval studies, during the International Medieval Conference in England.

After noticing that all of the speakers presenting a lecture on otherness in the Mediterranean were white, Oei was further incensed when the moderator joked that he doesnt look as much like an old, white man after vacationing at the beach.

Whether or not he intended it as a joke, it obviously ridicules the entire importance of race in this debate, as if it was merely a matter of lying in the sun," Oei said. "I was thinking I could do two things: Either I can just get up and leave, and it will be very awkward, or I can tweet about this."

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Other attendees leveled similar charges about the lack of diversity at the conference, arguing that the field of medieval studies is too Eurocentric and male-dominated.

"The IMC simply chose to ignore the expertise of people of color and others whose knowledge on issues of race and otherness has informed decades of scholarship," declared Jonathan Hsy, an associate professor of English at George Washington University. "If the thread organizers had listened to critiques voiced about the threads problematic framing and exclusions at any point during the planning process or indeed during the conference itself, this entire conversation could have been inclusive and innovative."

Some scholars also expressed concerns that white supremacists on alt-right online forums are increasingly using medieval themes to promote their worldview, which the professors claim is at odds with the historical reality of the Middle Ages.

Calling the alt-right interpretation a fantasy, Suzanne Akbari, director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, countered that the medieval past is actually highly integrated, highly diverse, with a tremendous amount of cultural interchange.

Medievalist Eileen Joy agreed that the Medieval Studies discipline is a safe place to be elitist, speculating that this has to do with its reputation for focusing on European and Christian cultures.

The field has been rather proud of its resistance to critical theory, which then just attracts even more people to the field who themselves want to be resistant to theory and see medieval studies as a safe placea safe place to be elitist, a safe place to be white, a safe place to be Christian, Eurocentric, misogynist, etc., she asserted.

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Joy claimed that she eventually grew so frustrated by the situation that she resigned from her position as an assistant professor in order to help found a publishing house called Punctum Books, as well as a working group called BABEL that promotes nontraditional scholarship

"I realized the only way the field will change or be more welcoming or more inclusive is if some of us actually devote all of our time and energy to creating new spaces, new presses, new journals, new conferences where this kind of work can be developed," Joy explained.

Notably, both Hsy and Kim were among the signatories of a January 2016 letter to Barbara Newman, president of the Medieval Academy of America, objecting to an anti-feminist and explicitly misogynistic website run by Medievalist Allen Frantzen.

Akbari, who wrote the letter in her capacity as Chair of the Organizing Committee for the 2017 MAA conference, claims that Frantzens website exemplifies the abusive behaviors common within the discipline, demanding that the MAA issue a public statement reaffirming our commitment to creating and maintaining a culture that does not tolerate harassment, bullying, or other forms of abuse.

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WASHINGTON Highlighting the growing influence of the alt-right movement, the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday released a roster of its major players people ranging from neo-Nazis to conservative politicians to internet trolls.

The storied anti-Semitism watchdog published a new guide a Whos Who? of 36 activists and leaders of the alt-right and alt-lite, saying they personify these movements at a time of increased public activity.

ADL officials said the lists were needed to help understand and track the movements and the various ideologies they represent, underlining concerns in the Jewish community and elsewhere of the growing prominence of hate groups in the US under President Donald Trump.

The alt-right, an amorphous designation that includes among its ranks white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis, sprang from obscurity during the 2016 election cycle to one of the most prominent extremist groups in the United States.

The alt-lite is a term created by alt-right leaders to differentiate themselves from right-wing activists who spurn the white supremacist ideology. Many of its adherents, however, are also extremists and traffic in various forms of bigotry.

In the past year, members of the alt right and alt lite have been increasingly at odds with each other, even as they hold public rallies to promote their extreme views, said ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt. We want people to understand who the key players are and what they truly represent.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaking at the organizations Never is Now conference in New York City, Nov. 17, 2016. (Courtesy of the ADL)

The groups report, which was compiled by its Center on Extremism, aims to increase understanding of these movements central characters and how their behavior and strategies are evolving over time.

While the alt right has been around for years, the current iteration is still figuring out what it is and isnt, said Oren Segal, who directs the ADLs Center on Extremism, in a statement.

This is further complicated by the emergence of the alt lite, which operates in the orbit of the alt right, but has rejected public displays of white supremacy. Both movements hateful ideologies are still somewhat fluid, as are the lines that separate them.

Some people on the list are more known than others to the general public.

Richard Spencer, for instance, the leading ideologue of the alt-right who made headlines last December when he hailed then President-elect Donald Trump as a crowd made Nazi salutes, is included. So, too, is Andrew Anglin, who runs a neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer.

Many of those cataloged, like Spencer and Anglin, are staunch supporters of President Trump.

Corey Stewart, then co-chair of Donald Trumps 2016 presidential campaign in Virginia, addresses Trump supporters in a Northern Virginia home on Feb. 1, 2016 for an Iowa caucus watch party. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Corey Stewart, a recently failed candidate for Virginias 2017 GOP gubernatorial primary, is listed. During the 2016 election, he co-chaired Trumps campaign in the state, but was eventually fired for attending an anti-Republican National Committee rally in October 2016. Hes made headlines for seeking to preserve Confederate monuments in the American south.

Milo Yiannopolous is also included. A controversial media provocateur, Yiannopolous resigned as a writer for Breitbart News in February, after he seemed to condone men having sex with boys as young as 13.

Breitbart News, a far-right website, was once run by Steve Bannon, now Trumps senior counselor and chief White House strategist.

During his tenure as executive chairman, Bannon pushed a nationalist agenda and turned the publication into what he called the platform for the alt-right. The ADL vociferously opposed his appointment to a job in the White House.

Many critics, especially the ADL, were disgruntled by President Trumps unwillingness to condemn his alt-right backers as a candidate, which he later did in an interview with The New York Times after he was elected.

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Back in February, it looked like Milo Yiannopouloss career was toast. After winning fame on the strength of President Trumps campaign, the right-wing provocateur suffered a succession of setbacks after it was revealed that he once defended pederasty: He lost a book deal, a coveted speaking slot and his post at Breitbart News in one week. But as we hit the six-month mark of the Trump administration, Yiannopoulos has accomplished a quick comeback, once again commanding the attention of conservative fans and outraged foes.

Yiannopoulos re-emerged in May, when he slammed the singer Ariana Grande and headlined a protest against activist Linda Sarsours commencement address at CUNYs public health school. Sadly, Ariana Grande is too stupid to wise up and warn her European fans about the real threats to their freedom and their lives, the British-born Yiannopoulos wrote only a few hours after dozens of people had been killed in a terror attack at the pop stars concert in Manchester, England. He continued the broadsides at his New York speech against Sarsour later in the week; he spoke under a driving rain and denounced the Muslim civil rights leader as a Sharia-embracing, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating ticking time-bomb of progressive horror.

Since then, Yiannopoulos has only garnered more attention, with the Independence Day release of his book Dangerous a title ripped from the visits he made to American college campuses as part of his self-declared Dangerous Faggot tour. Panned in numerous outlets, the book is divided into laundry list chapters about why various demographics hate him - including feminists, Black Lives Matter activists and the media. It also includes occasional discussions of Yiannopouloss sexual interest in black men, which he often invokes to dispel charges of racism. Nonetheless, the memoir has shot to the top of the Amazon best-seller list a definite sign that Yiannopouloss star continues to shine brightly. His achievement was made more impressive, given the fact that he self-published the memoir, following Simon & Schusters decision to dump his title in February.

When the pedophilia comments surfaced, the chastened Yiannopoulos gave a formal press conference where he apologized for his actions and sought forgiveness. But now that hes back in the saddle again, the bomb-thrower isnt saving any of his firepower. Hes threatening to sue Simon & Schuster for canceling his book deal a threat that the imprint dismissed as a publicity stunt. He also hired dwarfs to don yarmulkes at a New York book launch party to mock Jewish right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, an old rival from the days when both men worked at Breitbart.

Yiannopoulos is also getting support from some deep-pocketed people. According to leaked e-mails between Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News head Alex Marlow, it appears that hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer, helped finance Yiannopoulos after he left Breitbart and may have even helped him obtain a visa to remain in the United States. Rebekah Mercer loves Milo, said an unidentified source friendly with the family, which funded Trumps presidential campaign and set up the electoral data mining company Cambridge Analytica to back him. They always stood behind him, and their support never wavered.

As the summer continues, Yiannopouloss plans seem to be up in the air. Will he write another book, launch another hair-raising speaking tour, start his own media outlet, join an existing one? These are unknowns. But already hes done something impressive: Hes maintained and expanded his public profile after a scandal that may have felled longer-time celebrities. Whatever happens next, hes the master of the millennial internet culture that is his domain.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at solomon@forward.com or on Twitter, @DanielJSolomon

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